A growing collection of short papers that summarize and translate research findings into evidence-based policy recommendations for addressing critical challenges related to food and nutrition security in India.

Welcome

Technical Assistance and Research for Indian Nutrition and Agriculture (TARINA) is a consortium that connects policy-focused academics from diverse disciplinary perspectives with impact-focused non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development partners to tackle malnutrition in India. Through its leadership and expertise, the consortium aims to promote a more nutrition-sensitive food system that enhances the availability and affordability of diverse, high-quality and nutrient-rich foods for the rural poor. In view of this goal, TARINA provides a mix of technical assistance, evidence generation and capacity building for the design and implementation of agricultural projects, programs and policies that ensure improved nutrition outcomes.

TARINA was founded under a grant awarded to the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project was launched on December 1st, 2015 and will run through November 2019.

Tata-Cornell releases its TARINA 2018 Report, which features the key changes that TARINA is making at individual, community and policy level to create a more nutrition-sensitive food system in India.
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TARINA integrates nutrition-focused objectives, actions, and metrics into field-based projects and programs implemented by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development partners in three Indian states – Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.

Blog

We knew we were close when the noise of the car was overtaken by the sound of bleating goats. Suddenly, we stopped near a makeshift gate that enclosed a dirt field. “This is it,” said my colleague, Naveen Sridhar Kottayil, at the sight of... Read more

Norman Borlaug, plant scientist and founder of the Green Revolution that shaped India’s modern agricultural economy, stated that “Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.” I believe that it is also a basic right,... Read more